Pawlenty: unfit to lead

Thursday 14 February 2008 - Filed under Politics

Just search my blog for “Pawlenty” and you’ll see I do not like the man’s politics. Britt Robson at MinnPost has a nice article that illustrates this: Pawlenty: My way or no highway, from which I quote.

I remain hopeful we can overcome the politics and rhetoric of this debate and pass a bipartisan transportation bill this session.

Doesn’t that sound reasonable? But Robson calls this out as the complete bullshit that it is:

Let us flash back not that far, to May of 2005. A bipartisan transportation funding bill was passed, out of both the DFL-majority Senate and a State House of Representatives then controlled by Republicans.

Gov. Pawlenty’s response to that bipartisan bill? He called a press conference and then, for the benefit of the cameras, pulled out a huge red VETO stamp and affixed it firmly down on the bill. “How dumb can they be?” he sneered at those who dared send him the bill.

Yup, I guess Pawlenty is the only one who is allowed to use politics and rhetoric.

Then just yesterday he pulls out the same old “no new taxes” bullshit:

I still have an important tool to restrain taxes and spending,” he stated. “I call it the taxpayer protection pen, otherwise known as the veto pen. As you know, I will not hesitate to use it to stop government from digging into your wallets.

With all due respect, retard, the problems our state faces are due to a systematic starvation of our government by its wealthiest residents and a chief executive that thinks that the worst possible place for our money is in his hands. You want transportation? Pay for it. The sole instrument of our collective will comes from “digging into our wallets”.

2008-02-14  »  lolife